icon themes

[Bob Snyder]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Jason Keltz wrote:
>
>> I can't really seem to find much information on icons in Xfce.  From 
>> what I understand, Xfce is using the freekdesktop.org icon 
>> framework.  I have installed the "hicolor" theme from 
>> freekdesktop.org.  If I want to increase the number of icons on my 
>> system so that the users have more selection to choose from when 
>> adding entries to the panel, do I need to download Xfce specific icon 
>> themes, or do I go to something like http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon 
>> and download away?
>
>
> Why not try it and find out? ^_~  Those should work ok, though be 
> aware that there is no standard for the icon names, so Xfce things may 
> in some areas be expecting icons for particular categories that the 
> particular theme doesn't provide, or provides under a different file 
> name.  No way around this really, unless you want to start symlinking.
>
>    -brian


This is exactly what I did a few months ago, with one of the RC 
versions. I had lots of problems with some of the icon themes that I 
found on art.gnome.org. They would cause xfdesktop and/or xfce4-panel to 
crash and other instabilities associated with icons in some of the 
dialogs. Restarting did not help. I had to delete my ~/.config stuff to 
restore normal operation. I haven't tried it with 2.4.0. I'm not that 
curious.

Bob S.